Photo: Garbanzo972 · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Donat sits a long way from hospital care: 29 km for the average resident
In the health survey, 56% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec’s 57%. A pharmacy is nearer: 2.6 km on average, with 1.1 within 3 km of the typical home. The Health grade for Saint-Donat is B, #479 of 503 in Quebec and #1,887 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Saint-Donat
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.1, would put Saint-Donat’s region near 80.3 years; it reaches 82.0. For its deprivation ↓
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.6 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 55% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Saint-Donat grades B for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged. Its place: #479 of 503 in Quebec and #1,887 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.7 years more here
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Saint-Donat’s region shows above the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Saint-Donat’s region, at 3.1, outlives the trend’s 80.3 years with 82.0. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 80.9 years. Judged by income, around $81,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 55% to 56%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 64% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Quebec it was 64%, and 20% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (8.2%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 33% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
Pharmacies around Saint-Donat: 1.1 within 3 km, the nearest 2.6 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Saint-Donat, weighted by who lives there.
From Saint-Donat that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 8th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Saint-Donat’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Saint-Donat comes 38th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,005 to 5,170 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Alexander MB B+ | 5,161 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Meinzinger Park-Lakeside ON A | 5,007 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 3 | Nipawin SK C− | 5,033 | 0.9 km | 47% |
| 36 | Electoral Area D, Peace River BC C− | 5,100 | 19 km | 43% |
| 37 | Gibsons BC A+ | 5,090 | 19 km | 59% |
| 38 | Saint-Donat QC B | 5,087 | 29 km | 56% |
| 39 | Electoral Area F, Cariboo BC C− | 5,016 | 33 km | 48% |
| 40 | Big Lakes County AB D− | 5,106 | 53 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Saint-Donat
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Donat | 29 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
| Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci 10 km | 27 km | 56% | 82.0 | B |
Every place around Saint-Donat shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Saint-Donat alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
Questions about health in Saint-Donat
How far is Saint-Donat from a hospital?
Residents of Saint-Donat have a clinic 2.7 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.6 km away, in straight lines.
How is Saint-Donat’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saint-Donat’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Saint-Donat?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
What is the life expectancy in Saint-Donat?
Women in Saint-Donat’s region live to 83.7 on average and men to 80.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).